09-08 to 09-11-24
It's time to hold tech and people like Pavel Durov accountable for their powerful influence they hold over the world. Why should they become billionaires at the cost of damaging society? The very society that supports their product and services.
I shouldn’t be a free for all to fraudsters just for powering my device and going online or using an app. Nor should anyone else, especially kids, the elderly or the disabled. My devices shouldn’t be compromised to work against me while I pay the bill for the monthly service on the device I bought—but that’s exactly what’s been happening and it’s destroyed my life. All from the privacy of my bedroom.
Ross William Ulbright has been pardoned a life sentence thanks to President Trump. Ulbright was the creator of Silk Road, a platform that made drugs accessible on the dark web for what I would say is less dangerous than aiding and abetting a terrorist group like Hamas as Telegram does. According to NYT, Telegram was the terrorists’ go-to app. Telegram and its founder Pavel Durov should he held accountable for the terrorism, child exploitation and fraud perpetrated on its app, aiding what I would describe a silent, invisible genocide in the from of poverty, homelessness, opioid addiction, mental health crisis, child predators, suicides. Durov refuses to assist law enforcement in criminal matters involving his app. Who else would get away with that? Telegram is frequently mentioned as the go-to app for fraudsters and other cybercriminals. It’s most likely the app used by the criminals who have overtaken my devices.
Screenshot above: I shouldn't have to be bombarded with ads, political ideologies, scams, porn on an app or online. When disinformation becomes so pernicious as to distort reality and foment hate and fear, that's a problem. On the day of Trump's assassination attempt, it was out of control. The criminals feed off crisis and chaos.
INSTAGRAM - JC PENNY
Screenshot above: JC Penny's Instagram. Again, one demographic gets singled out for their history, culture, exceptionalism, at a store open to the public where many of all races shop. It's asking for donations to Black Girl's Smile, a non profit focused on the mental health of black females, as though mental health only afflicts black females. Mental health shouldn't be from the perspective of race. That's a wrong way to approach it.
SAME PEOPLE, DIFFERENT WEBSITES
Screenshots above: Clicking on Black Girl's Smile I see a post of the same female that showed on the storefront of a dental practice in Astoria near office.
Screenshots above: Columbia University ad on NYT. Axos Bank. Schneider Electric. USPS.
INSTAGRAM - ASOS
Screenshots above: Asos's Instagram. Same nail and sneaker culture as on all the other Instagram accounts. Some may say, That's the fad now, who are you to challenge it? No, it's explicit influence of one dominant culture. I know this bcecause in spring/summer 2022 when I was terrorized and scammed at full blast, my Pinterest and Instagram were plastered with nails (and lions) when I have never looked at nails on social media or the internet.
INSTAGRAM & TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Screenshots above: Special treatment to one demographic at Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments received a hefty government funding for computer chips not too long ago.
SAME ILLUSTRATOR
Screenshots above: Chubb. Listerine. NY Office To End Domestic & Gender-Based Violence. US Bank. Looks to be same illustrator for La Colombe's packaging as the illustrations in post above.
INSTAGRAM - BLACK GIRLS SHINE
Screenshots above: An earlier post from JC Penny's was on Black Girls Smile, now on La Colombe it's Black Girls Shine. They have their own coffee—that's how special they are. They also have a philanthropic month dedicated to them. We have to pause and ask ourselves, How is this normal? How is this OK when no other group of people is getting anywhere as much attention and special treatment. Black people are not the only ones to have suffered in human history. It's grossly unjust how much is bestowed on them while those of us who put in effort with no advantages or assistance of any kind are sidelined.
I’m probably the only Asian female to have been exposed to both all-white suburb and all black/brown child welfare system without ever once exposed to my own born culture, which is Asian, specifically, Korean. I know from my experience in all-white suburb that white teens suffer from mental health. In my experience back in the 1990’s, white teens suffered more from mental health more than any POC I encountered in the child welfare system. People of color have strong close-knit extended families. It’s not uncommon that grandparents should look after the kids when the parents work, or act as substitute mother/father, or live in the same house. Aunts, uncles, cousins, the church, “girlfriends”/ “homies”/ “bros”—it’s a collective culture of communal gathering. Family reunions are an annual affair. When researching international adoption, black social workers and the black community, more than any other group, made a fuss about a black child being with a black caretaker or adopted by black parents/guardians. No other race in international adoption made as much a fuss in sticking with the same race. White/suburban kids tend to be more independent from their family. It’s not uncommon for white teenagers to spend hours in their room alone with their TV, video games, talking on the phone, or listening to their music. Affluent white kids are known to be pressured to get good grades so to be accepted at a top university to get certain jobs, etc. They involve themselves with several extracurricular activities which the parents start young, ballet lessons, drumming lessons, piano lessons, etc. In that sense the kids are starting to work, to apply themselves as young as five years old. It’s not all “white privilege”, meaning getting something for nothing besides skin color. I remember hearing of one suicide while I lived in Fairport of a kid who was a neighbor to someone I knew and when we sat in her kitchen, she pointed to a house and said the kid killed himself. He didn’t go to our school, so I didn’t know who he was. When I lived in Buffalo, I knew of two white males who overdosed on drugs, with one who died from it. They were both in their twenties. I once dated a guy who was into oxytocin who I wouldn’t be surprised if… I know of no suicides of people of color. In my experience, the kids I was exposed to in the social service system had more ADHD issues than depression. They weren’t the type of kids to be in their rooms for hours on end, alienated and morose.
Maybe the reason why the mental health crisis with the young is persistent and inexplicable is because the attention is focused on the wrong group of young people. We read in NYT and see on social media that the mental health crisis is most impacting trans and black girls. Going by the WSJ’s 2023 Instagram post claiming “Fewer black professionals are getting promoted into management”, most likely that is also disinformation. If white males are the ones prone to “despair deaths” killing themselves from self-inflicted gun shots, opioids, alcoholism, it’s not hard to see how that’s extended to their offspring. Hudson Yards’s The Vessel had several suicides of people jumping to their deaths, many were young. I have a hunch it was more white young ppl, if not all white ppl, than POC.
SAME PERSON, DIFFERENT WEBSITES
Screenshots above: The Loveland Foundation. Acuvue. Capital One. Delta Dental.
INSTAGRAM - MORE NAILS & SNEAKERS
Screenshots above: Scrubdaddy's Instagram.
Screenshots above: Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Bloom.
Screenshots above: Tru Fru and Real Simple.
INSTAGRAM - DR SCHOLLS
Screenshots above: Dr Scholl's Instagram—one dominant representation. Dr Scholls and ASAPdotcom. Representatives of America, China, probably Russia, all the autocratic countries. And that's basically it in a nutshell autocratic influence.
SAME PEOPLE, DIFFERENT WEBSITES/PLATFORMS
Screenshots above: Dr Scholl's. Brookings Institute. Mount Sinai. NYC Hospitals/Bellavue. Saatva. Southern Company & Gas.
Screenshots above: Dr Scholl's. MCS Bank. NYC Healthy.
Screenshots above: Dr Scholl's. FBI. Listerine. National Bank of Middlebury. OTR Solutions. Kaplan.
NYPD COMMISSIONER
Screenshots above: Reminder that Police Commissioner Caban dismissed 54 possible cases of NYPD misconduct/abuse of power, the most out of any commissioner in NY history; 4yrs after George Floyd and during alleged zeitgeist of Social Justice. Not only dismiss, but kept cases from public knowledge. Caban is an Eric Adam’s appointee and top official. Eric Adams, a black man, ran his campaign on going after crime. Including abuse of power in the name of Social Justice.
Screenshots above: Eric Adams often boasts he appointed women in top roles, but seems like more women in top roles have resigned during his time in office. Keechant Sewell below and FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh. I think I read in NYT another women who had stepped down during his administration.
INSTAGRAM - SAME LOOK
Screenshots above: The same look, one that’s very appealing to kids. Find Cosmic Bliss and Magic Spoon Cereal.
INSTAGRAM - NINTENDO
Screenshots above: Xbox IG and nail polish and sneakers.
FORD & ESSENECE FEST
Screenshots above: Ford and Essence Fest, ie black culture, sneakers and clothing of one dominant culture.
Link
Screenshots above: Essence website appears like what's shown in screenshots. When I'm not documenting it's very conspicuous, when documenting it shows for split second. Photos/videos are obstructed from importing to iMac again and have to use my other X acct as vehicle to import from iPhone.
INSTAGRAM - SAME ILLUSTRATION FOR DIFFERENCE ORGANIZATIONS
Screenshots above: Creative Media Marketing Inc and Women Hack.
INSTAGRAM - BUBLY
Screenshots above: Bubly's Instagram.
BOGUS STORAGE ALERTS
Screenshots above: “Not enough disk space to open library”. Harassed in publishing post on Instagram. Harassed on Google and Substack.
LEBRON JAMES
Screenshots above: As with nails and sneakers, everything repeats itself. LeBron James is another one of their piss marks. He's regurgitated often on social media, showed as one of my followers on X, signed off character defamation email sent to my employer on 01-20-23.
NYT - BLACK HAIR
NYT - “HAIR DISCRIMINATION”
INSTAGRAM -NESQUIK
Nesquik’s Instagram is interesting. It’s not too long to scroll to the first post. If you work your way up, you can see the transformation in look, design, down to the sneakers which morph right before your eyes from regular sneakers to something more street style and high tech looking.
Screenshots above: First posts in 2013.
Screenshots above: Images above are dated 2019
Screenshots above: Images are all 2020 and after. The sneakers are morphing into something more street style, the mural, the one dominant representation.
Screenshots above: Most recent posts.
INSTAGRAM - THE BREASTIES
Screenshots above: The Breasties, an organization of breast and gynecological cancer survivors/fighters.
INSTAGRAM - ESOS
INSTAGRAM - PANETONE
Screenshots above: Panetone and sneakers. Panetone is one of those endless Instagram accounts that would take forever to scroll to first image. Didn't bother.
Screenshots above: Panetone's Instagram continued.
Screenshots above: Panetone's Instagram continued.
Screenshots above: Panetone’s Instagram begins in 2012. Note the difference in appearance. Could it all be from more sophisticated filters and tech? No. It lacks the design element, one being cohesion, that doesn't require filter or tech.